Friday, November 6, from 5 to 8 pm Maine Potters Market will be hosting a welcome reception for our newest members, Robbi Fritz Portela & Rebecca May Verrill. This is a great opportunity to meet not only our newest members, but many of the 15 potters whose work is displayed in our Old Port store at 376 Fore St. in Portland.

 

Robbi, of Maple Lane Pottery has been working with clay since she was 13. She works in stoneware and makes pieces that are both fun and functional. Her work reflects all the years of living and working on a small farm in both New Hampshire and later in her present home of Windsor, Maine where she is constantly inspired by the animals around her on her farm and in the surrounding country side. Robbi decorates her stoneware pottery with a variety of brightly painted whimsical farm animals and wild creatures, from hedgehogs to ravens.

 

Rebecca has been working with clay, teaching and firing kilns for nearly 20 years. She is a native of Western Maine, where she first developed her love of creating objects from the natural world. Now Portland based, Rebecca's current work is primarily wheel-formed earthenware, often altered, and low-fired in an electric kiln. Celebrating treasures one might find strolling the Maine woods, Rebecca uses lithography techniques from locally harvested plants, botanical illustrations and her own paper stencils to create contemporary surface designs.

 

 November hours: 

 Sunday-Wednesday 10-6

 Thursday 10-8

 Friday and Saturday 10-9

 Closed Thanksgiving Day